Roadside Picnic

Name: Roadside Picnic
Author: Boris Strugatsky

by Boris Strugatsky

Alien visitors leave mysterious zones of altered physics that transform human culture

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Boris Strugatsky

Boris Strugatsky co-authored with his brother Arkady the most celebrated body of Soviet science fiction, including Roadside Picnic and Hard to Be a God. Their novels often used science fiction as a vehicle for philosophical and moral exploration under Soviet censorship. Boris continued to write and publish after Arkady's death in 1991.

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